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So here are a few things to add into the universe to add some variety in the systems. Yes, josh's systems are beautiful, but they run the risk of becoming just another pretty nebula if that's all there is. So in addition to realistic empty systems with no nebula whatever and just a sea of stars around you, here are some things which can spice things up a bit

These would have a rather flat or toroidal, dusty disks filled with small asteroids to small planetoids. There wouldn't really be anything above or below the disk except enormous magnetic loops shooting dust clouds above and below. Often said disks would also have a frost line that separates the more rocky & metallic asteroids from the more icy ones. also, need not be colored like real life

Binary systems should definitely be in, but there should also be things like this carbon spiral. and since this is LT we aren't limited to greyish blue, but perhaps any or multiple colored spirals. They would just be dust clouds with small asteroids when you got close, they are more for "ooh aah" than gameplay.

No, this probably doesn't exist in reality, In real life this image is actually bioluminescent plankton...I think. However, I think it would be incredibly cool to have giant bursts of light and plasma appearing is what seem like enormous clouds in space. somewhat like a dusty asteroid zone, just plasma, acting almost like bubbling mud, exploding out and falling back in.

Occasionally, an explorer will come across what appears to be a tiny little galaxy, just hanging out in a star system. it appears to be filled with stars and dust just as though it were huge...but the stars are tiny little points of light, and the "galaxy" is smaller than a planet.

The last one looks like a magnetic field of some sort. Anyways, I like all of the ideas except for mini-galaxies as they really don't make much sense. It would be cool to be very close to a galaxy though and be able to see it in all its glory on rare occasions.

For instance seeing this in game would be very neat and should be very special. But it should be so far away that it can't be flown around or scanned.

Just saw this video, and i think it would be amazing to come across enormous, mysterious anomalies like it. Of course if they were also "real" and could thus be created by the player, at least theorhetically, and was in fact created by some historically generated NPCs that would be really cool.

The guy has an interesting idea, that this structure was built to open the enormous rifts in space, was destroyed by them, and the rifts are now self-sustaining.

If you're trying to fill the multiverse, and you're not willing to consider the entire creative output of humanity as a starting point, you're wasting your time.